Betty White died of stroke suffered 6 days ago, death certificate reveals

Veteran actress Betty White died at her home in Los Angeles as the result of a stroke she had six days before her death on December 31, according to her death certificate. She was 99.

Betty White died from a stroke she had six days before her December 31 death at age 99, according to her death certificate. The beloved Golden Girls and Mary Tyler Moore Show actor died at her home in the Brentwood section of Los Angeles as the result of a December 25 cerebrovascular accident, the medical term for a stroke, according to the LA County death certificate obtained Monday by The Associated Press.

The cause was provided by White’s doctor, as is typical in such cases. She was cremated and her remains were given on Friday to Glenn Kaplan, the man in charge of White’s advanced health care directive.